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<div>On May 13, 2023, at 11:28 AM, Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf@gmail.com> wrote:</div>
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<p style="margin-left:1in">d.<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal"> </span>OSM conferences and local chapters
will pay OSMF a small fee per attendee or member and in exchange also be “OpenStreetMap Approved”, once the board is shown to be effective.</p>
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<div>Individual members don't fund the major costs of OSM. This might surprise some folks, but it's funded largely by companies and other organizations that find the project and its data valuable. The mappers contributing data are the project's most valuable
commodity, and I don't think picking their pockets would be a particularly effective way to thank them. As an OSM US board member, I'd oppose the foundation treating local chapters as their piggy bank. When we became an OSMF local chapter, there was considerable
debate about the benefits of becoming a chapter versus being an independent organization. If local chapters were made to kick back cash to the foundation, this would seriously reduce the desire of mapping organizations to affiliate with the OSMF. Thankfully
this has not happened so far.</div>
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<div>Maybe we should remove that then.</div>
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<div>I will also note that while metrics and visuals are valuable (OSM Americana, for example, has driven significant expressway and route mapping in the US, which is a local priority for us), these kinds of efforts do not require top-down management from the
foundation. Anybody can produce a map visualization that drives mappers to add a particular data class.</div>
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<div>The key I think is to have them in the site and available, and have the board focused on these kinds of things, rather than on some other site only a tiny fraction of mappers know about.</div>
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<div>Do we want to complete the map or not? That’s the question. If we do, then we can do so with a plan like this.</div>
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<div>Steve</div>
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